Professor Dantonio-Fryer volunteered her time and materials to the Ferris School for Boys, a part of the New Castle County, Delaware Correctional System to create a series of four murals in an effort to show corrections officials that a healing arts therapy program would greatly help the incarcerated youth.

Immediately following the creation of the four murals in 1998, the New Castle County, Delaware Correctional System requested that Professor Dantonio-Fryer create the cirriculum for a healing arts therapy program that they implemented
and is sucessfully running to this day.

"Societies Nightmares", created by a group of incarcerated youth ranging in age from 10 to 18, depicts how they see life in the inner cities which they came from.

In this mural the kids painted the crack house projects they lived in, a man getting high on drugs, the money exchanged for the drugs and a tombstone symbolizing the known end to a life lived in the drug infested poverty the grew up knowing.

Also painted into the mural is a man with a butterfly in his stomach which symbolizes the fear, surrendering rebirth and a burning of their bridges to the past. The dream catcher in the center is a symbol of trying catch and heal the nightmares of society.

In the lower right corner are the happy face, sad face masks. The happy face stands for when a person is happy with all the drug money he has accumulated and the sad face stands for all the violence that goes on involving drugs and guns.